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Directed by David LeanOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
War,
Adventure,
HistoricalThemes Seafaring films,
Pont,
Prison films,
Transport films,
Rail transport films,
Political films,
ÉvasionActors William Holden,
Alec Guinness,
Jack Hawkins,
Sessue Hayakawa,
James Donald,
Percy HerbertRating80%
In World War II, British prisoners arrive by train at a Japanese prison camp in Burma. The commandant, Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa), informs them that all prisoners, regardless of rank, are to work on the construction of a railway bridge over the River Kwai that will connect Bangkok and Rangoon. The senior British officer, Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness), reminds Saito that the Geneva Conventions exempt officers from manual labour., 3h17
Directed by David LeanOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Historical,
Melodrama,
RomanceThemes Politique,
Films about sexuality,
Transport films,
Rail transport films,
Political filmsActors Omar Sharif,
Julie Christie,
Geraldine Chaplin,
Rod Steiger,
Alec Guinness,
Tom CourtenayRating78%
The film takes place mostly against a backdrop of the pre-World War I years, World War I itself, the Russian Revolution of 1917, and the Russian Civil War. A narrative framing device, set in the late 1940s to early 1950s, involves KGB Lieutenant General Yevgraf Andreyevich Zhivago (Alec Guinness) searching for the daughter of his half brother, Doctor Yuri Andreyevich Zhivago (Omar Sharif), and Larissa ("Lara") Antipova (Julie Christie). Yevgraf believes a young woman, Tanya Komarova (Rita Tushingham), may be his niece and tells her the story of her father's life., 2h43
Directed by David LeanOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
Adventure,
HistoricalThemes Films about racism,
Théâtre,
Films based on playsActors Judy Davis,
Victor Banerjee,
Peggy Ashcroft,
James Fox,
Alec Guinness,
Nigel HaversRating72%
The film is set in the 1920s during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj. Adela Quested (Judy Davis) and Mrs Moore (Peggy Ashcroft) sail from England to India, where Ronny Heaslop (Nigel Havers), the older woman's son and younger woman's fiancé, is the magistrate in the provincial town of Chandrapore. Through school superintendent Richard Fielding (James Fox), the two visitors meet eccentric elderly Brahmin scholar Professor Godbole (Alec Guinness), and they befriend Dr Aziz Ahmed (Victor Banerjee), an impoverished widower who initially meets Mrs Moore in a moonlit mosque overlooking the Ganges River. Their sensitivity and unprejudiced attitude toward native Indians endears them to him. When Mrs Moore and Adela express an interest in seeing the "real" India, as opposed to the Anglicised environment of cricket, polo, and afternoon tea the British expatriates created for themselves, Aziz offers to host an excursion to the remote Marabar Caves., 1h54
Directed by David Lean,
Anthony Havelock-Allan,
George PollockOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
HistoricalThemes Théâtre,
Films based on plays,
Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre de Noel CowardActors Robert Newton,
Celia Johnson,
Stanley Holloway,
John Mills,
Amy Veness,
Alison LeggattRating72%
Opening in 1919, shortly after the end of the First World War, the film focuses on the middle class Gibbons family after they settle in a house in Clapham, South London. The household includes Frank, his wife Ethel, their three children – Reg, Vi and Queenie – his widowed sister Sylvia and Ethel's mother. Frank is delighted to discover that his next-door neighbour is Bob Mitchell, a friend from his days in the army., 1h35
Directed by David Lean,
Maurice ElveyOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
Science fiction,
War,
Social science fiction,
ComedyThemes Films set in the future,
Films based on playsActors Jameson Thomas,
Benita Hume,
Basil Gill,
Henry Vibart,
James Carew,
Milton RosmerRating60%
In 1940/50, world peace is threatened when the "United States of Europe" comes into conflict with the "Empire of the Atlantic States". The former comprises Europe, India, the Middle East, Canada, Africa and Australasia. The latter is a combination of the United States and South America. , 3h15
Directed by David Lean,
Charles FrendOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
Comedy-drama,
Historical,
Melodrama,
RomanceThemes Films about terrorism,
Political filmsActors Robert Mitchum,
Sarah Miles,
John Mills,
Christopher Jones,
Trevor Howard,
Leo McKernRating73%
Rosy Ryan (Sarah Miles) is on a cliff high above the Atlantic Ocean in the town of Kirrary, an isolated village on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland. A gust of wind takes her parasol over the cliff and down into the ocean, where it lands next to a currach containing Father Hugh Collins (Trevor Howard) and a mentally impaired man named Michael (John Mills) who retrieves the parasol. On the beach, Michael proudly reunites Rosy with her parasol and shows her an enormous, thrashing lobster that he has caught. The townspeople play a vicious game of Keep Away with Michael and the lobster until Father Collins shames them for their abuse., 1h55
Directed by David Lean,
Noël CowardOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
WarThemes Seafaring films,
Politique,
Transport films,
La bataille de l'Atlantique,
Political filmsActors John Mills,
Michael Wilding,
Bernard Miles,
Noël Coward,
Celia Johnson,
Philip FriendRating71%
The film opens with the narration: "This is the story of a ship" and the images of shipbuilding in a British dockyard. The action then moves forward in time showing the ship, HMS Torrin, engaging German transports in a night-time engagement during the Battle of Crete in 1941. However, when dawn breaks, the destroyer comes under aerial attack from German bombers., 2h23
Directed by Robert Siodmak,
Noël Howard,
Irving LernerOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Action,
Historical,
WesternThemes Political filmsActors Robert Shaw,
Jeffrey Hunter,
Ty Hardin,
Mary Ure,
Lawrence Tierney,
Robert RyanRating58%
With no better offers to be had, famous American Civil War upstart officer George Armstrong Custer takes over the Western Cavalry maintaining the peace in the Dakotas. He soon learns that the U.S. treaties are a sham, that Indian lands are being stolen and every excuse for driving them off their hunting grounds is being encouraged. With his wife Elizabeth (Mary Ure) Custer goes in and out of favor in Washington, while failing to keep wildcatting miners like his own deserting Sergeant Mulligan (Robert Ryan) from running off to prospect for gold in Indian country. After trying to humble the prideful Indian warrior Sitting Bull (Kieron Moore), Custer leads the 7th Cavalry into defeat., 1h47
Directed by David LeanOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-dramaThemes Théâtre,
Films based on playsActors Charles Laughton,
John Mills,
Brenda De Banzie,
Prunella Scales,
Daphne Anderson,
Richard WattisRating76%
Willie Mossop (John Mills) is a gifted but unappreciated bootmaker employed by the tyrannical Henry Horatio Hobson (Charles Laughton) in his moderately upmarket shop in 1880s Salford in Lancashire. Hard-drinking widower Hobson has three daughters. Maggie (Brenda De Banzie) and her younger sisters Alice (Daphne Anderson) and Vicky (Prunella Scales) have worked in their father's establishment without wages and are eager to be married and free of the shop. Alice has been seeing Albert Prosser (Richard Wattis), a young up-and-coming solicitor, while Vicky prefers Freddy Beenstock (Derek Blomfield), the son of a respectable corn merchant. Hobson does not object to losing Alice and Vicky, but Maggie is far too useful to part with. To his friends, he mocks the plain, severe Maggie as a spinster "a bit on the ripe side" at 30 years of age., 1h39
Directed by David LeanOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
RomanceThemes Théâtre,
Films based on playsActors Katharine Hepburn,
Rossano Brazzi,
Darren McGavin,
Isa Miranda,
Mari Aldon,
Gino CavalieriRating70%
The story focuses on Jane Hudson (Katharine Hepburn), a single, middle-aged elementary school secretary (she refers to her position as "a fancy secretary") from Akron, Ohio. She is on her summer vacation and is now enjoying her lifelong dream of a vacation in Venice after saving up money for the past few years for the big trip. During the water bus ride to the Pensione Fiorini, she meets two fellow Americans, Lloyd (MacDonald Parke) and Edith (Jane Rose) McIlhenny. At the hotel, they are greeted by Signora Fiorini (Isa Miranda), a widow who transformed her home into a pensione after World War II. Also staying at the property are Eddie Yaeger (Darren McGavin), a young American painter studying art, and his wife Phyl (Mari Aldon).